The Recovering Choir Director

Michael Church of the UK Independent reviews Music: healing the rift. He contends that this book, written by British radio show host Ivan Hewett, sheds a bright light on today’s musical situation in the Western world, ecclesiastical and otherwise.

Teaser:

Hewett offers a brilliant tour d’horizon of music’s multifarious new directions—aided by sampling tricks, fuelled by PC notions—but concludes that if we want to “heal the rift”, we can’t delegate the job to composers. We must all start making music again. If we play and sing, we will once more listen actively too. And that way lies musical health.

[Via St. Cecilia Schola Cantorum.]